secondlife / secondlife/viewer

SL Viewer freezed when toggling away to another computer, via a KVM

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Description

When the SL viewer is running, and I toggle to another computer and then toggle back, the SL viewer freezes / is non-responsive. Also, any typing I do with other programs is affected, where characters are dropped and others are repeated.

After about 2-3 minutes, SL viewer will occasionally un-freeze and resume as normal but in most cases I have to kill it and start the viewer again.

UPDATE: Just toggled and SL viewer again froze. However, I can still hear regional audio from the viewer, so it makes me wonder if its just the visual aspect that is frozen.

https://secondlife.canny.io/admin/board/bug-reports/p/sl-viewer-freezed-when-toggling-away-to-another-computer-via-a-kvm

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Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are identified in the report. Start by reproducing the freeze while switching through a KVM, then determine whether the visual client, keyboard input, or both stop responding while regional audio continues; done means the viewer remains responsive after switching away and back.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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